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Who will ever forget the exercises in the hall, when the "Suwanee River" was sung by minstrels, to a set of tableaux representing the "old folks" at their cabin door, "playin' wid my brudder" as a game of stick-knife, and the "Swanny" River itself by a frieze of white pasteboard swans in the background?
Now he was half under, now three quarters, now only the end of his tail and the tip of his horn could be seen. When he was quite gone, Sammy drew a long breath and Roy said, "I swanny!" "How long will he have to stay down there?" "All winter, Roy." "Poor fellow!" "Happy fellow! I say. Why, he has done being a worm. His creeping days are over.
He began to realize that he had an appetite something now long unfamiliar to him. As he drew near, an appetizing odor smote his nostrils. "Eyesters, I swanny!" he ejaculated. It was unheard of!
One hand stuck in my side, the other extended to encourage her bashful approach Kiss me, love! sweet, as Jack Belford says, are the joys that come with willingness. Happier hours await thy humble love, than did thy proud resistance. Once more bent to my ardent lips the swanny glossiness of a neck late so stately. There's my precious! Again! Obliging loveliness! O my ever-blooming glory!
We may have need of it after all, for if they've troubled the Professor, I swanny I'll shoot some of the long-legged rascals!" What I had read of white men in wild countries had led me to believe that they usually shot the savages first and inquired into their intentions afterward.
Full of tenderness, melting with love, liquid with sweetness, the Cardinal sang to his patient little brooding mate: "So dear! So dear!" The farmer leaned on his corn-planter and listened to him intently. "I swanny! If he hasn't changed his song again, an' this time I'm blest if I can tell what he's saying!"
"You won't have to take so much sody followin' meals to sweeten you up.... G'-by, Deacon.... Soothin' syrup. Um!... I swanny...." He looked across the square and saw that Pliny Pickett was delighting an audience with apochryphal reminiscences, doubtless of a gallant and spicy character.
"Father, is that you?" "Yes, my dearest boy." "You can't think how well I feel tonight, father. Swanny, go down and have some supper, and mind you come again." "Ay, to be sure, Mr. Johnnie." "You're not going to sit up tonight, my good old friend," said John, passing into the room. "Well, no, sir, Mr.
And the ol' b'ar must ha' been mighty sorry arterwards that she was right there to receive me. She give a most awful grunt, shook me off onto the ground and kited out o' that as though she'd been sent for in a hurry! I swanny! I never did see a b'ar run so fast," and Long Jerry burst into an uproarious laugh.
It was almost bedtime when they arrived, and the family was much surprised to see them at that hour. "Well, I swanny!" ejaculated Mr. Hammond, "is this the best you girls could pick up-a Greaser? Do you call him a treasure?" The prisoner's eyes flashed again as he heard this. He stood by sourly enough while the girls explained more fully to the ranchman. "All right! All right!" growled Mr.
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